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Lieutenants M. L. Elliot and Homer B. Chandler made a record flight from Buffalo to Mineola, L. I. With a favorable wind of 40 miles an hour, they covered the 310 miles in 2 hours, 21 minutes, averaging nearly 150 miles an hour. Flying south of Binghamton, at a height of 6,000 feet, the officers encountered a flock of Canadian geese flying north in "V" formation. The flock broke into circular formation just in time to avoid collision. Had they struck the plane, it is probable that no damage would have resulted-except to the geese. But the propeller...
...duty of a citizen not only to observe the law but to let it be known that he is opposed to its violation," said President Coolidge in his recent message to Congress. This statement. Captain Elliot Snow of the United States Navy, and in charge of special instruction at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, believes to be the remedy for the present menacing situation in the United States...
...speech, President Elliot condemned Mayor Quinn especially for the appointments which he had made to executive offices of the city during the six years that he has served as mayor of Cambridge...
...Prof. G. Elliot Smith, distinguished anatomist and anthropologist of the University of London, traced in the relics found in TutankhAmen's tomb resemblances to cultural elements from remote races, affording proof of the widespread diffusion of early culture. Many of the same arts and crafts were found in the Egyptian delta as early as 3400 B. C. and in Polynesia...
...partners of J. P. Morgan & Co. are now: J. P. Morgan, Edward T. Stotesbury, Charles Steele, William H. Porter, Thomas W. Lament, Horatio G. Lloyd, Dwight W. Morrow, Edward R. Stettinius, Thomas Cochran, Junius Spencer Morgan, Jr., Elliot Cowdin Bacon, George Whitney, Thomas S. Gates, Russell C. Leffingwell. The firm holds two " seats " or memberships in the New York Stock Exchange, which stand in the names of J. P. Morgan and his son, Junius S. Morgan, Jr. The number of Morgan partners has always been elastic, and has recently varied from nine to fourteen, so that it cannot be said...